Sentences with phrase «because as the population ages»

«That implies plenty of room to grow because as the population ages, the demand for medicines will increase.»

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Efforts needed to avoid two extremes Wilmoth said low fertility could be viewed as just as difficult a challenge as high birth rates because governments have to deal with rapidly aging populations and fewer children to replace them.

This is of great concern to ecologists because the populations in these areas include pockets with the highest levels of genetic diversity, thanks to their ancestors having survived major climate change events such as ice ages.

The researchers selected 69 as the lower age limit because Medicare coverage of the general population begins at age 65, and the exposure of interest was regular mammography screening in the four years immediately preceding breast cancer diagnosis.

And, because stroke risk rises sharply after age 60, countries with large «boomer» populations, such as the United States, are on course for a substantial increase in stroke prevalence...

This is the result of increases in cancer diagnoses driven by the aging and growth of the population, as well as the fact that people are living longer with cancer because of earlier cancer detection and more effective treatments.

And because prostate cancer afflicts mainly men in their fifties and sixties, the toll is certain to rise as the populations of Western countries continue to age.

Although their cancers are diagnosed at younger ages, this is largely because these ethnic minority populations as a whole are younger than the population of White women in the UK.

The percentage of difference increases as the population ages, especially because Russian women outlive men on an average of 12 years.

Because we hope to study both the learning and early emergence of generosity, we target the preschool age as our population of interest.

Other approaches to examining school segregation in prior research rely on absolute numbers (e.g., a school is described as segregated because its enrollment is 90 % black), or characterize a school's enrollment as imbalanced relative to the demographics of the district or region (e.g., a school is described as segregated because its enrollment is 85 % black whereas the district's school age population is only 75 % black).

That decline is partly because more and more of this population is unable to continue to work, but it also suggests that retirement savings may start to run out as people age.

Because a female cat can become pregnant as young as 16 weeks of age and go on to have two or three litters a year, the feral cat population — and the problems associated with it — grows and perpetuates.

Because they feed in Arctic and subarctic benthic environments, gray whales are thought to be relatively sensitive to changes in climate, and climatic events such as the Medieval Warm Period (ca. 900 — 1200 AD) or Little Ice Age (ca. 1300 — 1850 AD) could have caused a population decline.

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

In part, this is because of the average younger age of the GTA as compared to the rest of Canada, but also the sheer size of the population.

This could be because of factors such as medical advances and an ageing population.

And I think it's really interesting because not just in fintech but kind of in the whole financial world as is, as our population ages there's going to be mass people, I hate to use the word, but basically dying off, and a large demographic of people that need to be serviced with the different products and different offerings and just not that many people able to provide for them.

The location of several institutions of higher learning in the Evansville area, such as the University of Southern Indiana, provides many cultural and employment benefits, but residents may be subject to higher auto insurance premiums because of the college - age population.

«The probability that a random person in the population could look at your iPhone X and unlock it using Face ID is approximately 1 in 1,000,000 (versus 1 in 50,000 for Touch ID)-LSB-...] The probability of a false match is different for twins and siblings that look like you as well as among children under the age of 13, because their distinct facial features may not have fully developed.

Growth will occur primarily because of technological advancements; an increased emphasis on preventative care; and the large, aging baby - boomer population who will demand more healthcare services as they live longer and more active lives.

As the health care industry expands because of technological advances in medicine and the growth and aging of the population, there will be an increased need for health care workers.

Employment of medical assistants is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2012 as the health services industry expands because of technological advances in medicine, and a growing and aging population.

Growth is expected because of advanced research resulting in more prescription medications being prescribed, as well as an aging population who will require more prescription medications.

As the healthcare industry expands because of technological advances in medicine and the growth and aging of the population, there will be an increased need for all healthcare workers.

The industry as a whole will see an increase in demand because of the aging of the population, the widespread use of electronic health records, and the Affordable Care Act.

We used EHCs as recruitment sites because they provide health - related information that can be used for eligibility screening purposes, and their clients are usually willing to participate in health - related studies endorsed by the Department of Health, HKSAR.37 Although EHCs» clients are representative of the general population of older adults in terms of age and SES, 37 they tend to be more health conscious.38 To examine the potential bias (better mental health) associated with recruiting participants from the EHCs, we recruited approximately 30 % of the sample (n = 258) from elderly community centres with no formal provision of medical and health services.

Because many foster and adopted children suffered abuse and neglect at early ages, attachment issues are not as rare for that population.

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

They have also noted that they believe that the US needs construction of at least 1.5 million new homes a year in order to keep up with the growing population as well as the average loss of existing stock each year because of age.

«As active as the market is with the product that we have today, we are looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of boomers hitting retirement age,» says Scott Stewart, a managing partner at Capitol Seniors Housing, a private equity - backed real estate acquisition, development and investment management firm based in Washington, D.C. «The fast - paced growth of that population in that sector is going to make today's discussion of overbuilding obsolete, because there just aren't enough places for everybody today,» he sayAs active as the market is with the product that we have today, we are looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of boomers hitting retirement age,» says Scott Stewart, a managing partner at Capitol Seniors Housing, a private equity - backed real estate acquisition, development and investment management firm based in Washington, D.C. «The fast - paced growth of that population in that sector is going to make today's discussion of overbuilding obsolete, because there just aren't enough places for everybody today,» he sayas the market is with the product that we have today, we are looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of boomers hitting retirement age,» says Scott Stewart, a managing partner at Capitol Seniors Housing, a private equity - backed real estate acquisition, development and investment management firm based in Washington, D.C. «The fast - paced growth of that population in that sector is going to make today's discussion of overbuilding obsolete, because there just aren't enough places for everybody today,» he says.

However, most experts agree that the skilled nursing sector will continue to be a valuable proposition within the healthcare delivery system, as the population continues to age and the demand for lower cost settings increases because of budgetary constraints.